I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

The power of pussy, that's why niggaz get their hair cut.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.